Se*ques"ter (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Sequestered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Sequestering.] [F. séquestrer, L.
sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester
a depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was placed
until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate.]
1. (Law) To separate from the owner for a
time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession
of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property
belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the
demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the
decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law,
to confiscate.
Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in
the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the
decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are
sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics.
Blackstone.
2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of
sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property,
etc.
It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and
his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
South.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to
separate from other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil
affairss.
Bacon.
4. To cause to retire or withdraw into
obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used
reflexively.
When men most sequester themselves from
action.
Hooker.
A love and desire to sequester a man's self for
a higher conversation.
Bacon.
Se*ques"ter, v. i. 1.
To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and
Utopian politics.
Milton.
2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may)
any concern with the estate of her husband.
Se*ques"ter, n. 1.
Sequestration; separation. [R.]
2. (Law) A person with whom two or more
contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one
who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or
referee. Bouvier.
3. (Med.) Same as
Sequestrum.
Se*ques"ter (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Sequestered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Sequestering.] [F. séquestrer, L.
sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester
a depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was placed
until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate.]
1. (Law) To separate from the owner for a
time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession
of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property
belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the
demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the
decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law,
to confiscate.
Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in
the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the
decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are
sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics.
Blackstone.
2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of
sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property,
etc.
It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and
his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
South.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to
separate from other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil
affairss.
Bacon.
4. To cause to retire or withdraw into
obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used
reflexively.
When men most sequester themselves from
action.
Hooker.
A love and desire to sequester a man's self for
a higher conversation.
Bacon.
Se*ques"ter, v. i. 1.
To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and
Utopian politics.
Milton.
2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may)
any concern with the estate of her husband.
Se*ques"ter, n. 1.
Sequestration; separation. [R.]
2. (Law) A person with whom two or more
contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one
who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or
referee. Bouvier.
3. (Med.) Same as
Sequestrum.
